I’m so grateful to have my friend Shadia Hrichi returning as a guest on my blog and hope her post encourages you too! — “Ha! We took bets on whether you could color outside the lines – the resounding answer was NO.” That was my friend’s response after seeing my first masterpiece. It happened about […]

If you’re one of the hundred or so people who entered the Promising Beginnings contest but didn’t win a free conference scholarship, you may enjoy this article written by Tamela Hancock Murray, literary agent with the Steve Laube Agency. — Any author who’s entered contests knows that they are difficult to win. The competition is […]

One of the winners of my sixth annual Promising Beginnings Writing Contest is Tom Threadgill, for his fiction work One for Sorrow. Tom won a full scholarship to the 2018 Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference. Tom Threadgill turned his love of a good tale into a full-time profession. His books have a distinct focus on […]

One of the winners of my sixth annual Promising Beginnings Writing Contest is Dr. Laurel Shaler, for her nonfiction work Reclaiming Relationships. Laurel won a full scholarship to the 2018 SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference. Dr. Shaler is an associate professor at Liberty University where she serves as the Director of the Master of Arts in […]

Because I believe in the power, impact, and influence of Christian writers’ conferences, I hold an annual contest in which the prize is a full scholarship to a conference. This year, for the 6th annual Promising Beginnings contest, I offered a choice between two options: Full scholarship to the 2018 Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, […]

I recently read an online article titled “Amazon: Christian Authors Beware”. In it the author (not named) bemoans that “Amazon is a massive giant and growing.” Two bulleted lists of “facts” and “factoids” were given (without attribution, citation, or documentation, so there’s no way to verify the statements). Then the author asserts that Amazon is not […]